The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 13, sentence 27
He had scarcely done so when the girl came out of the sea, and stretched out her arms towards his window.
Who acts: prince, girl · What happens: do, come out, stretch out · To what, where: sea, arms
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, girl), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 done | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 done | aux |
| 3 | scarcely | scarcely | ADV | _ | 4 done | advmod |
| 4 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 done | advmod |
| 6 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 9 came | mark |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 girl | det |
| 8 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 came | nsubj |
| 9 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 done | advcl |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 sea | case |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 sea | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 sea | det |
| 13 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 came | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 stretched | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 stretched | cc |
| 16 | stretched | stretch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 done | conj |
| 17 | out | out | ADP | _ | 16 stretched | compound:prt |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 arms | nmod:poss |
| 19 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 stretched | obj |
| 20 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 22 window | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 window | nmod:poss |
| 22 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 stretched | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 done | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past · perfect | prince | scarcely property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | come out | past | the girl | the sea | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient sea=Result | ||||
| 3 | stretch out | participle | prince not said here | girl's arms | towards prince's window | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent arm=Patient towards window=Recipient |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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